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<p>[quote user="mlehman"]It's a rather small set of pockets for as large as the facility looks. Two car length is all it looks like to me. But notice that the trestle extended beyond the pockets for several more car lengths. Maybe during busy times they spoted a few extra cars so they'd be available simply by rolling them back over the pockets, then dumping them?[/quote]</p> <p>2 posibly 3 car lengths (1916 would have been 34' 40 or 50 ton hoppers).  Also I would wager that the extra space after the coal pockets was room to roll; you would push the loaded cars all the way to the end, then unload them starting with closest car to the locomotive (doing the opposite would result in trying to start loaded hoppers on a grade).  It is also possible that they let them roll back down, however an out of control car rolling back down the slope could derail and block access to the roundhouse (look at the location of the access tracks to the round house and note they are parallel to the trestle).  Steeper grade versions of this used a winch to pull the string of cars up the grade. </p>
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